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MAY 2012 Center Forland New York City Law VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3 CITYMAY 2012 center forLAND new york city law VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3 Highlights CITY COUNCIL St. Vincent’s saga ends .......... 37 CITY PLANNING COMMISSION UWS nursing home approved ... 40 LANDMARKS Illegal UWS addition resolved ... 41 Tribeca additionsFPO OK’d ......... 42 Park Slope HD extension. ....... 43 SoHo rowhouses designated . .... 44 Claremont Stables project ....... 45 Kickstarter HQ in Greenpoint ... 46 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. Farm Colony developer sought . .. 47 The City Council approved Rudin Management Company’s project on the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus. Image: Courtesy of FXFowle Architects. NYCHA 11th Street, and the preservation CM/Build program audit ....... 47 CITY COUNCIL of the Reiss Pavilion on West 12th Street, which was slated for demoli- Rezoning/Special Permits ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS tion. In addition, Rudin reduced the Greenwich Village, Manhattan Bronx Padlock Law site ......... 49 number of residential units from 450 Rudin’s St. Vincent’s plan to 350 units, and the size of an un- derground parking garage. COURT DECISIONS nears end of public review after Council modifications The project, which originally Atlantic Yards SEIS ordered ..... 49 included a new hospital building After more than four years of agency for St. Vincent’s on the site of the CITYLAND PROFILE review, Rudin returned to Land- O’Toole Building, has undergone marks for approval to enlarge and multiple revisions over its four years John Weiss. ....................48 reuse Reiss Pavilion. On March 28, of public review. The saga began in 2012, the City Council modified the 2008, when Rudin and St. Vincent’s CHARTS Rudin Management Company’s Hospital sought Landmarks approv- DCP Pipeline .................C-1 plan to redevelop the former St. Vin- al for a joint proposal to redevelop ULURP Pipeline. ..............C-2 cent’s Hospital Complex on Seventh the site. The plan included replacing BSA Pipeline . .C-3 Avenue in the Greenwich Village His- the 1964 O’Toole Building on Sev- Landmarks Pipeline . ..........C-5 toric District. The modified mixed- enth Avenue between 12th and 13th CityAdmin.org New Decisions. C-8 use residential project includes a Streets across the street from St. Vin- new residential tower along Seventh cent’s Hospital with a new state-of- Avenue, five townhouses along West the-art hospital. (cont’d on page 39) www.CityLandNYC.org 37 COM M E NTARY CityLand NOW AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET: www.CityLandNYC.org Welcome to the new CityLand! 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Edward N. Costikyan Francis McArdle Richard M. Weinberg Paul A. Crotty John D. McMahon ’76 Peter L. Zimroth POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Richard J. Davis Thomas L. McMahon ’83 James D. Zirin CITYLAND, 185 West Broadway, New York, New Michael B. Gerrard Gary P. Naftalis York 10013-2921. Periodicals postage paid at Judah Gribetz Steven M. Polan New York, New York. Kathleen Grimm ’80 Gail S. Port ’76 CITYLAND Volume 9 • May 2012 www.CityLandNYC.org 38 After St. Vincent’s moved to the In 2010, however, St. Vincent’s contingent on obtaining Landmarks new building, Rudin would replace declared bankruptcy and the hos- approval to enlarge and convert the the former hospital complex with a pital closed permanently. Rudin building into apartments. Rudin 21-story residential tower and rows purchased the O’Toole Building also agreed to prohibit retail signage of three-story townhouses along and donated it to North Shore-LIJ along West 12th Street, reduce the West 11th and West 12th Streets be- Health System, which agreed to use number of residential units by 22 tween Seventh and Sixth Avenues. the building to house a compre- percent, and build a smaller parking Local residents and preservation hensive health center. In order to garage. In addition, Rudin agreed to groups opposed the proposal, and redevelop the former hospital site, pursue dedication of the Triangle Landmarks asked Rudin and St. Vin- Rudin needed to rezone portions Site as parkland, and to work with cent’s to consider a plan that would of the block and obtain a variety of the community to incorporate an preserve more of the buildings. 5 special permits. AIDS memorial into the park. CityLand 61 (May 15, 2008). When Rudin’s project reached In a separate agreement se- Rudin and St. Vincent’s re- the City Planning Commission’s cured by Speaker Christine C. turned to Landmarks in June 2008 public hearing in November 2011 Quinn, whose district includes the with a revised plan. The new design residents and preservationists reit- project, Rudin committed to pro- called for, among other things, a erated their opposition. Some op- viding financial assistance to con- reduction in the heights of the new ponents demanded that the project vert the former Foundling Hospital hospital and residential tower, and include affordable housing, and that at 16th Street and Sixth Avenue into the preservation of four of the eight Rudin be required to build a new a school, and to support arts pro- buildings originally slated for demo- full-service hospital facility. Others grams at P.S. 3 and 41 in the neigh- lition. St. Vincent’s still proposed argued that the Reiss Pavilion should borhood. Rudin will also provide replacing the O’Toole Building with be preserved, while some residents financial assistance to MFY Legal new hospital. Community groups were concerned that the 152-space Services, a non-profit affordable criticized the revised proposal at a underground garage would create housing advocate. public hearing, and Landmarks held traffic problems in an area that al- The Subcommittee and Land off voting on the plan. 5 CityLand 91 ready had enough parking garages. Use Committee approved the modi- (July 15, 2008). A group, including representatives fied proposal, and the City Council St. Vincent’s was ultimately from the Queer History Alliance, referred the plan back to the City compelled to file a hardship appli- argued that the Triangle Site should Planning Commission to review the cation with Landmarks to demol- contain an AIDS memorial park and modifications. The Commission ish the O’Toole Building, which a learning center in recognition of found that the modifications were Landmarks granted.
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